sabbatarian

• “I'm not in principle a dedicated, old-style sabbatarian, but there are moments when I fully understand what that is about in its most positive sense -- and many of those moments happen when I'm enjoying a Sabbath eve meal with Jewish friends, when I realize just what it is to have twenty-four hours experienced as sheer gift and grace, to be welcomed like a bride.”

  An address by the Archbishop of Canterbury given to a meeting of the Alcuin Club at Lambeth Palace

• “Sunday in increasingly multicultural America will probably lose even more of its strict sabbatarian character, but Mr. Miller doubts that its specialness will ever be entirely lost.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Day of Restlessness

• “Do you know if anybody has purposely marketed an electronic workaround for sabbatarian rules?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Kay Hymowitz on Libertarianism and Civil Rights:

• “The Israelites, a messianic sabbatarian sect, whose ritual included baptism by total immersion at midnight, the kiss of peace, and an annual passover, had made their headquarters in the location at Ntaba”

  Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 12

• “The geese on the green downs, just below the village, had clearly never even heard of Calvin; they were luxuriating in a series of plunges into the deep pools in a way to prove complete ignorance of nice sabbatarian laws.”

  In and out of Three Normady Inns

• “A conscientious diarist, though full of sabbatarian zeal, was fain to admit that 'Severall sorts of Busnesses was a-Going on: Sum a-Exercising, Sum a-Hearing o' the”

  The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760

• “Puritan jurisprudence, 113; sabbatarian extravagance provokes reaction, 371.”

  A History of American Christianity

• “I have elsewhere spoken of a past sabbatarian strictness, and I have lately received an account of a strictness in observing the national fast-day, or day appointed for preparation in celebrating Holy Communion, which has in some measure passed away.”

  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character

• “I have an instance of a very grim assertion of extreme sabbatarian zeal.”

  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character

• “Oh, A SHOP, you mean," Philip replied, putting on at once his most respectable British sabbatarian air.”

  The British Barbarians

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